Janaina Medeiros
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@friedcheesemogu
First time I've drawn in a few months. Sketches/scenes for something I've been thinking about while struggling through some things. It has a title and a concept, and maybe wants to be a little zine, but we'll see if it goes anywhere. William Brandt-centric because who would it be.
Alright tell me in the tags, what’s Your Poem? That poem you heard once and it has dwelt within you ever since?
If Brandt had appeared in any of the last three movies—or all three—how would you have liked his character to develop? 🤔
WHO'S LATE I'M LATE NO ONE EXPECTS ANYTHING LESS FROM ME!
Hi Nonnie! What an interesting question!
I'm really sorry for the delay- I've been in exile/on study abroad at another store for my job and it has erased my capabilities to engage with life, fandom, or anything other than "go to work/survive/come home." I've been gone from Will, and I miss him.
LIKE I MISSED HIM IN THE LAST THREE MOVIES, I MEAN DAMN
The easy answer to this question is, I would have liked him to develop into Ethan's boyfriend and for them to furiously make-out onscreen for at least 45 minutes of each film.
To be fair, I didn't come into the fandom until several years after "Fallout." But the moment I realized he wasn't going to be in it, I was so disappointed, and that feeling never left me.
At the end of the "Rogue Nation," it seems like Will is going to be Hunley's right hand man, and I would l have loved to see him step further into that role - or at least, to see it more than we glimpsed with the previous Secretary in "Ghost Protocol." He starts to project a little more confidence in himself and his abilities, and I wanted to see that grow, I wanted to see Will both lean into his anxious, sarcastic self and his strengths as an analyst and as an agent. And I wanted to see that acknowledged.
I would have liked him to become fully "of the team." I know he technically is that in both GP and RN, but he's the only team member ever to not be called by his first name. While I get that some people think it's a distance he creates and prefers, I wish we'd seen him become part of the "family," as it were, for him to be called "Will." I think Benji would have enjoyed calling him "Willy" or "Bill" and Will would have hated it.
Especially because Ethan is so lousy to and unappreciative of him in RN, I would have liked to see how they came to better understand/trust each other. Or, well, Will already trusts Ethan implicitly, and Ethan obviously trusts him enough to rely on him in moments of emergency and in bigger plans. But I would have liked him to be able to step in, handle a crisis, provide insight into a villain. I think he and Ethan would always bicker, but in an increasingly friendly and horny way that would have continued to provide the fun and important contrast between the rest of the team that always "yes ands" their way behind Ethan. I don't think Ethan sees anyone as an equal (you can argue with me on that, for sure), but it would have been neat to see him accept that Will is his foil and use their contrast to further their goals.
What I had really hoped for "Final Reckoning" was that Will would have been working behind the scenes in the IMF/with Sloane. If everything had to go analog because of the entity, wouldn't Will, who has already been shown to have excellent recall for information be ideal in that situation? He showed incredible resourcefulness protecting Ethan in the pre-RN comic, I'm sure he could have an excellent inside man. It would have been interesting to see him make the argument for Sloane and the others to trust Ethan "one last time" not only from a "believe me because I'm sad puppy eyes in a navy blue sweater" viewpoint, but from a "I can tell give you solid evidence of why he is the right person, and do it while also making it clear that I care so very, very much."
Will has been protective of Ethan before either of them understood it, and I would've like to see him develop into a real, solid, and visibly important member of the team, whose talents, fears, and hopes are put to the test with everyone else.
...I say, this, though, knowing full well my own post-Fallout fic has Will struggling with all of these things in various ways, and leaning into his worse impulses more heavily. I think that would have been amazing too, but unfortunately the last three movies were not character studies of my favorite member of the Useless Bitch Dumpster Collective IMF, so I'm left to my own decidedly sinister devices.
Thank you so much for asking and for your patience!
To my mutuals I wanna get to know ya!
So tell me one random fact about yourself?
Doesn’t have to be anything big just a random little fact or story
Here’s mine: I have met county singer Lee Ann Womack before when I was a little kid
she was performing at a charity concert for the rehabilitation center for kids with special needs and cerebral palsy that I went to for most my childhood and me and my sister got to sit on the stage as she sang her hit song“I hope you dance”
I remember she was really nice and signed a photo for us but here’s the embarrassing part..
You know how celebrities have craft services backstage? Like food they like and all that?
My dad ate most of the food that they had set up for her and her band while she was performing on stage..like a whole tray of thumbprint cookies before my mom told him to stop it
It’s still talked about in my family every time we hear her music
But yeah that’s my random fun fact about myself
Feel free to add yours
Tagging @nonscathingbullets and @dallysbailey @yoshifan456 and @allforreading-fandomthings and @thehippievalkilmerlady65
Ooh that is fun and I love that story!
Apparently (this has also been a story that has been told a billoin times by my mother) I have a very eclectic music taste. And my dad, who was terminally ill and going to die, but that isn't that important for the story, and his friend were sitting downstairs to idk talk or something, and I was upstairs cleaning my room and listening to my Spotify playlist. So I was singing along (quite badly) to said playlist and my dad and friend were enjoying the heck out of it, because (as I quote my mother) "it went from Hank Williams to Lordi to Queen to Disney to Phantom of the Opera" and I think that is amazing.
I also love how we all just collect music from the most random places. Like, I am a big fan of Hank Williams (Sr.) because of my Tom Hiddleston era and me watching the (godawful) I Saw The Light biopic that he starred in. I love Lordi because I listened to a Eurovision playlistt on YouTube during the Covid pandemic and then I drifted into a Lordi playlist and then the rest is history (I've seen them live as well, which was awesome).
So if you, lovely mutual that reads this, wants to join but doesn't know what to say, I want to know what music or song or artist you found from where :)
@stardustloki @friedcheesemogu @benmission @thewitchoftheficz @the-scrungilow @rebeccasteventaylor @-alltheothersthatIforgot
Arriving late as usual, I've been trying to think of an interesting fact about myself, or story, but I've been having trouble picking one/feeling like anything was interesting, so here's some quick facts:
-I've broken my left arm 3 times
-I've been sued (a car accident that wasn't my fault)
-I have both my "ride or die" fandom pairings as tattoos (see more about one of them below), and they were both drawn by my partner
-I lived in Japan for 8 months during my junior year of college and that was the "crossing the Rubicon" moment that changed the course of my life. I could never live there long-term again; I miss it every single day.
As for a song, I have two, because why not:
-"New Constellations" by Ryn Weaver. This came on my Spotify "Discover Weekly" while I was commuting to what I referred to as "crazy school"- the extreme therapy program I did in 2021 after the actual worst year and a half of my life. I loved it, and I immediately saw the Willthan potential in it, and a year later I had some of the lyrics tattooed "the truest of blue/a love like a roar") on my thigh above my partner's art of them.
-"Escape Artist" by Zoe Keating. I heard this during an episode of "Elementary," which I love, and it became my default theme for Ethan Hunt. There was a point early in writing "Too Busy Being Yours To Fall" where I lay on the floor and listened to it on loop for an hour while I tried to figure out a major plot point. Zoe Keating radio is my default writing music; if I'm managing to make any words, I've probably listened to "Escape Artist" at least once already.
(My actual favorite bands ever, though, are probably pre-Green Album Weezer and/or Placebo. Did someone grow up during the 90s? Hmmm...)
I find it so lovely how people acquire favourite animals.
Like, some people don't have a single one and while that is valid, it is also boring.
Some people chose something when they were a child and stuck to it, to a degree that every single birthday they get something themed with that animal and actually love that (case in point: my mom and her seals).
Some people chose something when they were a child and stuck to it, to a degree that every single birthday they get something themed with that animal but actually kinda hate that, because they are more than bees.
Some people switch around frequently, or have multiple, but their favourites are specific enough that every time you see one of their critters you go 'hey, that reminds me of them!' (case in point: my friend and her sharks and puffins).
Some people acquire them left right and center from reasons totally outside of the critter themselves, which can be annoying, because how can you explain that yes, I love raccoons, but for no sane reason except for Tom Cruise fanfiction (Same for ducks, pallas cats, mermaids, quokkas and bunny plushies,) or yes, I have a koi fish tattooed on my foot but not because the fish were my favourites before, just because of yet another fanfic that had nothing to do with koi after all. Also my favourite pokemon is now attached to that as well. Oh and also my favourite animal is actually a sea turtle. :)
(Share your favourite animal(s) and how you acquired them in the reblogs, love to read that!)
When I got my first guinea pig at 6, there was almost nothing in terms of toys or books or anything that was guinea pig themed. So anything we ever found that had a guinea pig on it was immediately acquired, because it was important to rep them as much as possible. I'm still waiting for them to fully "have their day," but it's much easier to find guinea pig content now. And obviously, since they're the only pet I've ever consistently had or wanted, they're one of my favorites. I am a lifelong Guinea Pig Advocate.
My mom loves crows, and she and my dad feed the crows in their garden. She has a vast collection of crow Zuni and Navajo fetishes from New Mexico. My dad kind of latched onto badgers, which I think has a lot to do with his work on the University (the UW mascot is a badger).
Like @thewitchoftheficz I am also very much into hyraxes. I like bats a lot. I like a good pika. I enjoy a fine wolverine. Getting to meet capybaras in Tokyo last year was incredibly exciting.
The animal that is immortalized on my partner's skin for me is an angler fish. My friends like to comment that I have an extraordinary number of teeth (or so it seems when I smile), so I think it's very fitting. Also it lives in the deep ocean, which I love; it bioluminesces which I would be doing RIGHT NOW if I could; it lures things closer with its light and only when you're close enough to you realize what you've discovered and by then it's too late, just like me! And now we're friends FOREVER. @w@
Wow, it's like looking in a mirror!
(I cried over the Black Sea Devil swimming to the surface so many times last summer, she was so beautiful and perfect)
I also love potoos, that are insane-looking birds with giant mouths that camoflage themselves with dead trees so they can sleep (I do this with laundry), and tarsiers, that have GIANT EYES and long weird fingers and definitely want to come over and stare at you like this O.O.
And now you know! :D
I've been trying to figure out how to word this for like an hour, because the fact is that while I've been "away" for work I feel like I've completely lost touch with a lot of things and people and fandom especially. I miss my boys, and I'm afraid things will be different when I "get home." So if you're feeling at all compelled to write some Will/Ethan, may I humbly ask for something where one of them (probably Ethan) has been gone on a job for a long time, and is starting to worry (perhaps not without cause) that the other won't be waiting when they come back. Obviously it would be nice if they were, but I leave it in your hands. And if that doesn't do anything for you, you could literally write anything about them and I'd be at your feet as ever. No pressure at all, you're such a gift of a person, thanks for everything you do always. 🩵
Oh darling, the boys have missed you too, I promise 💜
I hope my little fic for you makes your day brighter, and know the boys will always be here for you, so will I
An unsure welcome
Love you @friedcheesemogu 💜💜
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This is everything I could have hoped for and more, and it really did brighten a difficult day. Thank you so, so much, for everything always 🥰🥰🥰
"Attack on Titan" where everything is the same except that Eren is a lobster
If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading
William Brandt who?
Fandom what?
WIP Wednesday Whenever
Thank you @coffeeandbowtieswrites for continually believing that I'm actually capable of ever getting anything done.
This week’s ✨WIP Wednesday Theme✨ is…
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Share a snippet of whatever you’ve worked on recently!
Before devolving into a soul lost in the Backrooms (true story), I did manage to monkey-with-typewriter a tiny bit of "I Want Something That I Want...," so here you go:
Ethan slides into Warrior One and lets out a slow breath, waiting for Will to continue. But he doesn’t, he just watches Ethan hold his pose, then move onto the next one, occasionally sipping on his beer. There’s a low pleased hum coming through the bond, but not the kind of heavy desire he’s used to; not the kind of “need” he’s been craving. It makes him feel ugly and stupid, and he retreats further back behind his walls so Will won’t notice.
But Will can tell something isn’t right. The hum lessens and disappears, replaced by a tentative curiosity and concern. Ethan drops into downward facing dog so he doesn’t scowl outright; finally Will is paying attention to how he’s feeling and he’s still getting it wrong.
“Hey, so um… I was thinking, would you like to go out tonight?”
“Go out?”
“Like to a restaurant or something. You know, like a date.”
Ethan looks up at that. Will is smiling a little, cautious though it may be.
Tagging @yoshifan456 and anyone else who would like to play, as ever.
Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.
Reblog if you're okay with people coming into your DMs with the "you seem really odd and your blog intrigues me, do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters"
[not drawing voice] I miss my character.
[not writing voice] I miss my character.
“you cannot ship these two fictional characters because—” actually I can because they are not real people. they are just toys I play with. you cannot apply real-world morality to fiction or how strangers play with their imaginary toys in their imaginary sandboxes.
you can, however, curate your own internet experience by minding your own business, muting/blocking/scrolling past what upsets you but does not hurt anyone in real life in any way, shape or form.
“ship whatever you want except xyz. there is a limit” so you miss the entire point of what I just said 👌🏻
there is, in fact, no limit. I may be uncomfortable with it, I may even find it unpleasant/disturbing, but my personal feelings are not rules that can be applied to other people, and they absolutely do not justify shaming or harassing other people.
never be good at your job. it's a trap. they'll just give you more and harder stuff to do and it'll pull you away from your true passion of writing gay fanfiction for people on the internet
eee #️⃣🕰🃏 for Willthan slowburn pleeeasseee
#️⃣What's the most oddly specific AO3 tag you could use for this story?
My first thought was "William Brandt is a little bitch," but honestly I feel like that's a tag that could be used in a lot of fics. So more specific would be "Ethan Hunt's voyeuristic tendencies" or "when you'd rather be a total sex pervert than address your feelings in any reasonable manner." Or maybe "William Brandt has the highest body count in the IMF...in bed." Slut!Will my beloved.
🕰️What's the timeline of the story?
The timeline starts in the nebulous area fandom has established between "Ghost Protocol" and "Rogue Nation," where most Ethan, Will, Jane and Benji mission fics are set. It briefly touches on RN and some bad feelings from that, then has a scene between RN and "Fallout," and the body of it all takes places after FO - which was the last movie when I started writing this back in 2021 (hahahaaaaaaaah). Since I hated DR beyond time, I saw no reason to add it/involve it in any way, so now it's a canon-divergent story. And Ilsa is still alive (and will remain that way).
🃏Wildcard: Answer the question you wish someone would ask you, or share a background detail, or a snippet or line!
I guess the question I wish someone would ask is "Do you want to talk about Hollis "Hal" Watney?" And the answer is yes, I do, but I recognize she's an OC and technically one of the villains of the situation, so not a lot of people would necessarily want to engage with her.
But I love her. Which is honestly strange for me, because I make OCs extremely rarely and even rarer still is me feeling like I haven't just xeroxed too much of myself onto them in some way. I'm really proud of Hal, though. She's named after my fascination with the name "Hollis," and Mark Watney from "The Martian," one of my favorite movies. I didn't even go in intending for her to be nicknamed "Hal," it just kind of happened and worked out great since she loves malicious computers. I like that she's more than a little crazy but she's also incredibly intelligent, forward, and willing to get her hands dirty. She kind of ended up writing herself that way, which was a lot of fun.
She was a great way to indulge my fixation with Prague's "Astronomical Clock," too, which was a lot of fun:
Hal's faceclaim is Amy Adams, who I've adored on since "Junebug" and "Catch Me If You Can."
Maybe that's where I got into trouble, because I ended up liking Hal and her interactions with Will SO MUCH that she's come very close to becoming Ms. Steal-yo-fic-and-yo-man.
Let's be honest, though, Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner are amazing in "Arrival" and just beautiful together; I can only blame myself.
@genfilst drew me fanart of her, and honestly it's one of the most amazing things I've ever gotten, because before she did it, no one (not even me) had ever drawn Hal, or even loved her enough to try. I'm so grateful for that. Whatever happens with her and Will in the end of the story, I really love what I was able to do with her and what she's brought to the story (even if she's Ethan's least favorite person in it).
And if I ever finish this damn thing, I want to get a necklace that matches Hal's. :)
Thank you so much always for indulging me!!
